Competition helps kids enhance creativity

'Odyssey' challenges problem-solving skills

7:35 PM,
Sep. 29, 2012

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Designed to help students of all ages expand their creative problem-solving skills, the Utah Odyssey of the Mind is a nonprofit organization that works with schools and other educational groups in a statewide competition.

Jenny Zachary, association director of the Utah Odyssey of the Mind, said the organization is an affiliate of the internationally-based Odyssey of the Mind program that exists in countries throughout the world.

Although the organization has been around for about 30 years, the Utah organization is making a resurgence in popularity among Utah schools in recent years ...